The Mindful Pantry Spice! Zingiber Officinale (ginger) is used in both sweet and savoury dishes, Ginger is a commonly used rhizome (root) in Ayuverdic, traditional Chinese and Western medicine as a treatment for headaches and migraines, blood pressure and flow, and colds. It is also used in Western herbal medicine as an anti-inflammatory, helps reduce digestive cramping, flatulence and period pain, increases digestion and increases circulation to the extremities. In one instance the phenolic content of ginger was measured as 157mg/100g fresh weight rhizome and 291mg/100g fresh weight leaves. * The total flavonoid content appears to be 5. 54-11. 4mg/g dry weight, which is above that of Garlic, onions, papaya, black tea and semambu leaves all by at least two-fold. * * Ghasemzadeh A, Jaafar HZ, Rahmat A Identification and concentration of some flavonoid components in Malaysian young ginger (Zingiber officinale Roscoe) varieties by a high-performance liquid chromatography method.